New York’s Other Skyline — Old-School Water Towers
Squint a little and the sleek modern cityscape reveals old-fashioned water towers in use on most buildings over six stories. On the ground, New…
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Healing from Genocide with Storytelling
KIGALI, RWANDA — Taylor Krauss sticks out more than most white people here, on the dusty dirt road that runs in front of his…
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A Green Ranch — Run By Cowboys
TWO MILE RANCH, ARIZ. — John Heyneman has a problem. It’s late January, and some of his cows are missing. They’re stuck on the…
Read More"I see your war crimes charge and raise you civilian protection…"
This is old-ish news, but it merits repeating: After five years of genocide, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is flirting with peace in Darfur. He…
Read MoreThe price of truth
This piece comes to me via Lara J. Nettelfield, a professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada. It’s the story of one man trying…
Read MoreMore news about Africa, from a guy who knows it well
I just wanted to draw attention to this blog, by a guy who’s spent his career covering Africa and, in my estimation, has some…
Read MoreTurn to the left, turn to the Right: Get your Marxists right right right
Okay, people. I really don’t want to go here more than once. (And I haven’t, on the blog, but I have this conversation with…
Read MoreMemo to the NYT: Not every war in Africa is a genocide
Earlier this week, the New York Times published an editorial that sketches the violence in Congo this way: It has its roots in Rwanda;…
Read MoreReaders, beware
Here’s a story from the NY Times about an elaborate blogosphere hoax the swept up the American media. There’s a guy who invented a…
Read MoreThree new (ish) stories, from Africa and New York
Some more of my Sierra Leone reporting has finally seen the light of day. Here’s a story about a woman who runs a local…
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